Carlos Altamirano

Carlos Altamirano Orrego (18 December 1922-19 May 2019) was the General Secretary of the Socialist Party of Chile from 1971 to 1979.

Biography
Carlos Altamirano Orrego was born in Santiago, Chile in 1922, and he worked as a professor of financial law and public finances at the University of Chile before serving as a Socialist Party of Chile deputy from 1961 to 1965 and a senator from 1965 to 1973. From 1971 to 1979, he served as his party's general secretary. He escaped after Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup, living as a refugee in Cuba. DINA failed in its goal of assassinating him, and he died in Santiago in 2019 at the age of 96.